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Kendra Brown is analyzing the capital requirements for Reynold Corporation for next year. Kendra forecasts that Reynold will need $12 million to fund all of its positive-NPV projects and her job is to determine how to raise the money. Reynold's net income is $9 million, and it has paid a $4 dividend per share (DPS) for the past several years (1 million shares of common stock are outstanding); its shareholders expect the dividend to remain constant for the next several years. The company's target capital structure is 30% debt and 70% equity.
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-Select-Increase its capital budget.Increase dividends.Declare a stock dividend.Issue new common stock.Change capital structure, that is, use less debt.Item 9
(a)
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Amount needed to fund all of its positive-NPV projects = $12 million
Equity in company's target capital structure = 70% = 0.7
Debt in company's target capital structure = 30% = 0.3
So, if the firm follow a residual model and pay dividends after retaining funds for the capital budget, then:
Amount to retain for the capital budget = Amount needed to fund all of its positive-NPV projects * Equity in company's target capital structure
= $12 million * 0.70
= $8.4 million
The amount of retained earnings it will need to fund its capital budget = $8.4 million = $8,400,000
(b)
Number of shares of common stock are outstanding = 1 million
Net income = $9 million
Dividends per Share (DPS) = (Net income - Amount of retained earnings)
= ($9 million – $8.4 million ) / 1 million shares
= $0.6 million / 1 million
= $0.60
Dividends paid = Dividends per Share * Number of shares of common stock are outstanding
= $0.60 * 1 million
= $0.60 million
Payout ratio for the upcoming year = Dividends paid / Net income
= $0.60 million / 9 million
= 0.06666
= 6.67%
(c)
Dividends per Share (DPS) = $4
Dividends paid = Dividends per Share * Number of shares of common stock are outstanding
= $4 * 1 million
= $4 million
Net income = $9 million
Retained earnings for the firm's capital budget = Net income - Dividends paid
= $9 million - $4 million
= $5 million
= $5,000,000
(d)
No, the firm cannot maintain its current capital structure, maintain its DPS and maintain a $12 million capital budget without raising new stock. Since the firm maintain the capital budget and maintain the capital structure Debt-Equity ratio, the needed retained earnings is equal to $8.4 million, but at the current dividend per share policy the maximum retained earnings are $5 million. That is, with the current DPS policy the retained earnings are less than the equity amount required to be retained in order to fund the capital budget will maintaining the current capital structure